Re: [Groff] Rendering \(oq in ASCII and ISO 8859-1

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > I must say that fonts which have such `quotes' really force the
> > user to use Unicode.  From a typographical point of view I fully
> > agree that it is ugly.  But 'foo' as a substitute for `foo' is
> > simply not acceptable to me in many situations.  For example,
> > think of a man page documenting Lisp.  `(...) and '(...) are
> > completely different things.
> 
> ...in which case the characters aren't being used semantically as
> quotes of any kind, and should be included literally in the manpage,
> and not via a device-dependent indirection such as \(oq or \(cq.

So we are finally there: How to quote correctly.  Using ` and ' is not
the same as using \(oq and \(cq is not the same as using \(ga and
\(aa.  But people use what is available easiest on the keyboard.
Including me :-)


    Werner